{"id":18129,"date":"2014-06-30T13:34:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=18129"},"modified":"2014-06-30T13:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:37:06","slug":"toyguide-update-tbs-20-bastila-shan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2014\/06\/30\/toyguide-update-tbs-20-bastila-shan\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyguide Update: TBS #20 Bastila Shan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TBS\/basic\/TBS_20.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18132\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tbs20_preview1.jpg\" alt=\"tbs20_preview\" width=\"234\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">The\u00a0<a style=\"color: #198bff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/tgmain.html\">Yakface Toyguide<\/a>\u00a0updates resume with our next entry in the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #198bff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TBS.html\">The Black Series<\/a>\u00a03-3\/4\u2033 line. Today, we take a look at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TBS\/basic\/TBS_20.html\">Bastila Shan<\/a><a style=\"color: #198bff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TBS\/basic\/TBS_25.html\">\u00a0<\/a>(#20).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><strong>PROS:<\/strong>\u00a0The real benefit for this figure is that it (theoretically) gets a previously hard-to-find figure back on the retail market.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #444444;\">CONS: <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #444444;\">L<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\">ike many of the more recent 3-3\/4&#8243;\u00a0figures, this one suffers from an inferior paint job, especially when compared to the previous release. Paint is applied sloppily (face) and thin (torso, gauntlets, boots) in areas and downright missing in others (boots). I\u00a0recommend skipping this one altogether and picking up the TVC version. It may cost more but I think the quality is far, <em>far<\/em>\u00a0better. With\u00a0the persistent\u00a0retail distribution issues, I don&#8217;t expect this figure will be any easier to find at retail than the previous release. Your best bet is to pre-order but then you are at the mercy of what you are sent versus being able to pick out a figure with a somewhat decent deco\u00a0at retail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><a style=\"color: #198bff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TBS\/basic\/TBS_20.html\">Head to the toyguide<\/a>\u00a0for the full\u00a0image gallery and to judge for yourself whether this figure\u00a0is worth adding to your collection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">You can also weigh in with your impressions on the figures we add to our toyguide on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #198bff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Yakfacecom\/202559486798?ref=mf\">facebook<\/a>\u00a0and in our\u00a0<a style=\"color: #198bff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/\">forums.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Yakface Toyguide\u00a0updates resume with our next entry in the\u00a0The Black Series\u00a03-3\/4\u2033 line. Today, we take a look at\u00a0Bastila Shan\u00a0(#20). PROS:\u00a0The real benefit for this figure is that it (theoretically) gets a previously hard-to-find figure back on the retail market. CONS: Like many of the more recent 3-3\/4&#8243;\u00a0figures, this one suffers from an inferior paint job, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2014\/06\/30\/toyguide-update-tbs-20-bastila-shan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toyguide Update: TBS #20 Bastila Shan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[39,783,694,40],"class_list":["post-18129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-toyguide","tag-hasbro-2","tag-tbs","tag-the-black-series","tag-toyguide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18134,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18129\/revisions\/18134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}